[A calculated question. Every time a student opens it, the numbers change automatically, but not really for English teaching]

Calculate the rectangle area if the height is 8 and the base is 4

 [In a numeric question, you can establish a value for the error margin. For example, if the answer is 30 and we settle 5 as the margin value, any answer between 25 and 35 would be accepted. ]

What’s the value of ∏? (four decimals; remember that we use dots for decimals and commas for thousands)

 [Short answer questions can be ‘dangerous’. You must be sure that what we ask is obvious, simple and easy to understand. The more words we ask them to fill in, the more probability to get wrong answers. A period, a comma, and extra space, and so on, will make the software understand the question as wrong. 

You can of course offer more than one possible correct answer.

When was America discovered? Give just the year in numbers.

[This is an example of Multiple choice question, but with the Multi-select choice]

What's the correct answer? Select as many as necessary. 

[This is a question created with the TRUE or FALSE type of question. A quick way to create such question. In fact, you could do it with the multiple choice question, offering simply two options. However...

• if you create it with the multiple choice type of question, you can take points off for wrong answers (if you want)
• If you do it with the true and false type, wrong answer cannot take points off. 
• You cannot change from one type to the other. If in doubt, create the multiple choice one, which allows you to choose. 
• Students don’t see the difference. ]

Answer the following statement with True or False:

The TRUE or FALSE type of activity does not allow to take point off when the wrong answer is chosen. 

 [A simple match-the-column activity. You can use it with images, with text, with audio...]

Match the words with the descriptions.

[Example of multiple choice question]

What's the correct answer?